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• A bill to authorize the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza, Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River and tributaries : report (to accompany S. 2975) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the State Engineer ... (Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Office, 1842), by Louisiana. State Engineer's Dept (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evaluate the degree to which the preliminary findings on the failure of the levees are being incorporated into the restoration of hurricane protection : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 17, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relationship between canal and levee density and coastal land loss in Louisiana (U.S. Dept. of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Research and Development, National Wetlands Research Center, 1987), by R. E. Turner, Carroll L. Cordes, U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Research and Development, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and National Wetlands Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
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  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Louisiana hurricane protection project : communication from the Acting Assistant Secretary (Civil Works), the Department of the Army, transmitting a report on a hurricane and storm damage reduction project for the Lake Cataouatche area on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana, pursuant to Pub. L. 104-303, sec. 101(b)(11). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (page images at HathiTrust)

• Who's in charge of the New Orleans levees (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evaluate the degree to which the preliminary findings on the failure of the levees are being incorporated into the restoration of hurricane protection : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 17, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Special report of the state engineer on the system of internal improvements, to the legislature of the state of Louisiana. (Printed at the office of the Daily Advocate, 1857), by Louisiana. State Engineer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report: together with reports of chief engineers of 1st and 2d division La. levees. (J.O. Nixon, State Printer, 1866), by Louisiana. Board of Levee Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rockefeller refuge levee study. (Refuge Division, 1959), by Lewis G. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of the Board of engineers flood control to the Board of supervisors, Los Angeles County, California. ([Los Angeles, Cal., 1915), by Los Angeles County (Calif.) Board of engineers flood control, J. W. Reagan, H. Hawgood, Charles Tilston Leeds, Joseph Barlow Lippincott, and Frank Henry Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice of embanking lands from riverfloods, as applied to "levees" of the Mississippi. (D. Van Nostrand, 1860), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilot levee maintenance study; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. ([Sacramento], 1967), by California Department of Water Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice of embanking lands from river-floods, as applied to "levees" of the Mississippi (D. Van Nostrand, 1878), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wire netting as a means of improving the Missouri River. Preliminary report of a board constituted by special orders no. 46 of Nov. 20, 1880. ([St. Louis, Mo., 1881), by United States Army Corps of Engineers, Lyman E. Cooley, and Charles R. Suter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique des digues le long des fleuves et des rivieres, auquel on a joint des regles touchant les épis, fascinages & réservoirs, &c. Par m.Bourdet ... inspecteur général des hydrauliques de Sa Majesté le roi de Prusse. (et se vend a Paris, Chez C.A. Jombert, 1773), by Bourdet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi River levees and their effect on river stages during flood periods (Weather Bureau, 1910), by Samuel C. Emery, United States. Weather Bureau, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice of embanking lands from river-floods : as applied to "levees" of the Mississippi (John R. Reed, 1859), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique du lever des plans souterrains (E. Barnard, 1884), by F. Villet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables of cubic contents of levee embankments, designed by Arthur Alvord Stiles. (State Reclamation Department, 1917), by Arthur Alvord Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice of embanking lands from river-floods, as applied to "levees" of the Mississippi (D. Van Nostrand, 1870), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American levees; a comparative report on flood protection in the Mississippi and Sacramento valleys, made for the West Sacramento company by Haviland, Dozier & Tibbetts ... (Printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1913), by Dozier & Tibbetts Haviland and Sacramento West Sacramento Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Levee and drainage laws of Texas, digest of 1919. (State Reclamation Dept., 1919), by Texas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floods of the Mississippi river... their principal causes & effects... the levee system & other means... for the control of the river... the great flood of 1897. (Engineering news pub. co., 1897), by William Starling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Internal drainage of pervious levees. (Waterways Experiment Station, 1939), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical analyses of landside seepage berms : final report (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1980), by Reginald A. Barron, Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.). Geotechnical Laboratory, and United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Efficacy of partial cutoffs for controlling underseepage beneath levees. (U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and United States. Mississippi River Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model investigation: relief well systems for dams and levees on pervious foundations (U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydraulic model investigation: wave run-up and overtopping levee sections, Lake Okeechobee, Florida (Waterways Experiment Station, 1957), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentation and analysis of Rock Island underseepage data (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1980), by Robert W. Cunny, Geotechnical Laboratory (U.S.), and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of vegetation on the structural integrity of sandy levees (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1991), by Donald H. Gray, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and Evaluation Repair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of relief wells, Mississippi River levees, Alton to Gale, Illinois (Waterways Experiment Station, 1972), by Raymond Lawree Montgomery, Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.). Soils and Pavements Laboratory, and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. St. Louis District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flood control on the Mississippi River : hearings before the Committee on Flood Control, House of representatives, seventy-second Congress, first session, on H.R. 4668, a bill to provide compensation for lands taken, used, or destroyed by reason of setbacks or changes in levee lines on the main channel of the Mississippi River. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1932), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of officers. (St. Francis Levee District of Arkansas., in the 19th century), by Arkansas. Board of Directors of St. Francis Levee District (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigation of underseepage, lower Mississippi River levees. (Waterways Experiment Station, 1941), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware River model study : dike rehabilitation, hydraulic model investigation. (U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1964), by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of environmental consequences of waterway design and construction practices as of 1979 (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1982), by Edward L. Thackston, Robert B. Sneed, Environmental Laboratory (U.S.), Environmental and Water Quality Operational Studies (U.S.), and United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvement and extension of levees on the Savannah River at Augusta, Ga. : hearings before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, a bill H. R. 5425 to provide for the improvement and extension of levees on the Savannah River at Augusta, GA., March 13, 1935. (U.S. Govt. print. off, 1935), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• A model study of the run-up of wind-generated waves on levees with slopes of 1:3 and 1:6 (U.S. Beach Erosion Board, 1955), by Osvald J. Sibul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model study of overtopping of wind-generated waves on levees with slopes of 1:3 and 1:6 (U.S. Beach Erosion Board, 1956), by Osvald J. Sibul and Ernest Glenn Tickner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods to quantify seepage beneath Levee 30, Miami-Dade County, Florida (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;, 2001), by R. S. Sonenshein, Place-Based Studies Program (Geological Survey), and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydraulic model study for the salinity impact of levee failure flooding : Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Islands (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, 1984), by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District and United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Findings and recommendations based on the inspection of Delta levees during October 1980 (State of California, the Resources Agency, Department of Water Resources, 1980), by California Department of Water Resources and Lee W. Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Iowa and Cedar Rivers, Iowa and Minnesota, at Evansdale, Iowa : communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated November 14, 1975, submitting a report on Iowa and Cedar Rivers, Iowa and Minnesota, at Evansdale, Iowa, requested by a resolution of the House Committee on Flood Control adopted July 16, 1945. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Delta levees : what is their future? : a presentation of alternative courses of action for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta levees (The Dept., 1973), by California Department of Water Resources (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Engineering operations in redeeming overflowed lands (1914), by Harris Jacob Harman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kings River channel improvement project, Cole Slough-Laton area, California. (The Corps, 1975), by United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impact of agricultural levees on flood hazards (Vicksburg, Mississippi : U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ; [Springfield, Virginia] : [Available from National Technical Information Service], 1991., 1991), by Brad R. Hall, Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criteria for evaluating coastal flood-protection structures (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1989), by Todd L. Walton, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criteria for evaluating coastal flood-protection structures (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1989), by Todd L. Walton, Robert G. Dean, Clifford L. Truitt, John P. Ahrens, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

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